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This is a rather unusual rectangular shaped handaxe, a biface, not to be confused with a hafted axe or what you guys would call a celt.
This around 60,000 years old, Neanderthal technology from the late Middle Palaeolithic. I found it a few weeks ago on a Mousterian site that is dominated by Levallois products.
The biface has been created from a Levallois flake; with the traces of the bulb remaining in the first marked-up photo.
In the second marked up photo you can see the primary centripetal flaking which occurred before the flake was detached from the core (red coloured arrows).
Once removed from the core, the Levallois product was then further shaped (secondary flaking) on both the ventral and dorsal faces (green arrows). The area circled in blue is the remains of the rise that was created by the centripetal primary flaking.
This is a rather unusual rectangular shaped handaxe, a biface, not to be confused with a hafted axe or what you guys would call a celt.
This around 60,000 years old, Neanderthal technology from the late Middle Palaeolithic. I found it a few weeks ago on a Mousterian site that is dominated by Levallois products.
The biface has been created from a Levallois flake; with the traces of the bulb remaining in the first marked-up photo.
In the second marked up photo you can see the primary centripetal flaking which occurred before the flake was detached from the core (red coloured arrows).
Once removed from the core, the Levallois product was then further shaped (secondary flaking) on both the ventral and dorsal faces (green arrows). The area circled in blue is the remains of the rise that was created by the centripetal primary flaking.
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